Clothesline



June 16,1925.

' D.N.VWLKERSON cLoTHEsLINE original Filed Aug. 17192 m a3 SQ@ u 1 Si I lo /S 3 w a iw N w QNN m .Q M Q f 1? zo 11 13 2@- 4- A zz? zz zz Y A fg/f. a z3 123 1() .Patented Julie-1s, 1925.

DANIEL N. wILxEnsoN, or WASHINGTON, nIsrnIoT or COLUMBIA.

' CLOTHESLINE. l

Application led 4Aug-ust 17, 1922', Serial N'o. 582,437. Renewed May 11, 1925.

To all 'whom it mag/concern; A 4 Be it known that DANIEL N. VViLKERsoN,

'a citizen of the United States, residing at iilashington, District of Columbia, has in- 5 vented certain new and useful Improvements in Clotheslines, of which the following isa specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in pinless clothes lines and has special reterence to a link for inless clothes lines made of a single length o wire and having clothes receiving eyes and a spiral twisted spring clamp for holding the clothes, said link having one portion constituting a strain receiving bar.

More particularly the invention relates Eto an improvement on the patent issued to llVilliam Pr Henderson, October 22, 1912 and bearing the Number 1,042,345.

In carrying out the invention forming the subject matter of the above mentioned application into practical use it has been found that there is great difliculty in maintaining a direct lineal pull on the strain bar portion of the device because the clothes receiving eye at theend is apt to become deformed through continuous use and the stress exerted by the link to which Jthat eye is connected is apt to be brought out of alignment with the strain bar by the eye in the endof that link slipping up laway l. from such strain bar.- In consequence, la

'pull is exerted which draws the wrapping at the opposite end along the strain bar and et thus frees the loop, or eye, at the terminal of such opposite end so that it will open and the clothes line links will-separate at this point. rlhis is especially true when a heavy weight, such as wetblankets, bed spreads,

te and the like, is brought thereon. ln order toV overcome these objections which have been found by practical use ot the device, l

have improved the same and the principal object ot the improvement is to ensure that e5. the strain comes directly on the strain bar and cannot come on the spring clamp as in the prior patent. Y

With this object in view, the invention consists in general of an improved construction of clothes line link having a straight strain receiving bar extending from one and to the other end also having a portion of the wire .forming the link spirally'twisted about the middle of the straln receiving bar and .bent to provide clothes receiving eyes at Vits several views, and Y e Figure 1 represents a portion of a clothes line constructed of a plurality-of these links.

Figure 2 is an enlargedv detail side view 65' of one of the links.

Figure 3 is a plan view of this link.

Figures 4 to 8, inclusive, are modifications of the link and showing the means employed for maintaining the strain in axial alignment with the strain bar.

In the embodiment of the invention it will be seen that from the figures, each link consists of a single length of wire having a straight portion 10 constituting the Strain 75 bar. One end ot' this strain portion is doubled upon itself as at 11 to form an eye for the attachment of the next succeeding link. At the other end ot the straight portion the wire is doubled back as at 12 in 80- Figure 2 to form a loop engaging this eye in the adjacent link. From this point the wire is curved away from the strain bar andback towards it as at 18 to constitute a clothes receiving eye, the wire being then te wrapped with one 0r more turns around the strain bar and extending toward the eye 11.

rlhis end of the wire is then Wrapped in a tight coil about the rebent portion at the other end andv about the strain bar so as to en constitute a wrapping 14 which holds the eye 11 from opening. With the device as thus constructed it will be seen that the rebent portion or loop 12 oi one link being engaged by the rebent portion or eye 11 of @t the next link, the strain on the bar 10 is substantially in line therewith and no strain is broughtby the tension of the links on the twists 15.l Thus there is no tendency for the angular manner as at 17. In the.v form shown in Figure 5, the baekwardly bent portion 12 is again modified to form :t small eye 18. In Figure 6 the modification is made by bending the Wire back to form nn eye 18 and then tying it around the ber l0 as at 19. In Figure 7, the end is modified by bending,Y the wire around to l'orm mi eye 20 and wrapping it ence about lhe bnr 10 as :it 21. Figure 8 shows n` slight modiliefttion ol'A the form of eye shown in [figure 5. ln euch of these inslzmees it will be Seen that there is :1in eye ul' ezu-b eml o f' lhe strain bur n'hieh is diniinet in ils lunetion from the eiothes receiving eyes :it the ends ol' the spirzllly twieled portion@ There hue thus been provided :1 simple devil-e of thie description which is un improveinent of the deviee previously referred to by reason of the. provision of :ly Straight strain bar in eneh link with eyes :it eneh and for interlocking with the n lju- Cent link.

Having thus described the n\ention.\rliut is ela-inied as new, is i A pinless clothes line link made of a. single length 0f Wire haring n portion eon- Stituting the strain receiving bar straight throughout its length, said portion being bent at euch end to provide an eye for connection to adjacent links, the wire. being eontinued from one end by :L sharp bend vfrom the eye :Lt Said end to provide :1 elolhes receiving eye adjacent that 'end nml lo be then wrapped spirally about the strain bnr portion :1nd divergingl` therefrom, smid nire, beingr then directed toward the strain bur :lud being tightly Wrapped about the remaining eye, said divergingz,- portion :md lhe portion directed toward the strain bur voir stituting one Side of a elothes` rereiviirgr eye.

In testimony whereof vI uix my signe ture.

DANIEL N. VILKERSON. 

